Robert Edward Davis v. State

Petitioner, being held on a $250,000 bond following his arrest for drug trafficking, claims that he is entitled to release on his own recognizance pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.134, because the state has failed to file formál charges within thirty days of his arrest. The trial court denied petitioner’s motion for release, finding that the backlog at the laboratory testing the substance seized at the time of the arrest constituted good cause for the delay in filing an information. The court order simply denied petitioner’s motion. We deny the petition but order the…